Courts telling legislatures that the rules of the legislative body are subject to oversight by county judges, and that county judges know more about those rules than the civil servant whose job it is to inform and advise the legislature on following its own rules.
— Which, it follows, permits county court judges to rule that published laws are not laws unless they are first agreed to by county court judges. Which makes me wonder why we don’t just skip the middle man and go right to a judge and ask him or her to make the laws.
Bottom line: a Dane County Circuit court judge has just told the Wisconsin legislature that they are her bitches, and that the way they go about passing laws is up to her to decide. Separation of powers? A useful fiction that she allows to obtain provided the legislature doesn’t do something she and her son don’t like.
Gavel.
(thanks to newrouter)
And nothing says fine judicial reasoning and scholarship quite like having to re-write an order 3 times to be clear…
This is insanity. I cannot believe the Wisconsin Supreme Court hasn’t responded to this yet.
like having to re-write an order 3 times to be clear…
It’s sorta like a sternly worded letter from the UN – you need to get several before you actually have to respond to it.
Added to using federal agencies to persuade public or private action to some unknown degree, the Barky Era has produced so much legal ambiguity that whether you abide by any particular edict or you do not is indeterminate.
It’s basically little Barry’s anarchy out there. Own it, Constitutional Scholar.
Hey, maybe she can declare Dreams From My Father unpublished and make that whole Ayers thing go away.
Heh.
“Oh, and don’t be dissing me either.” (So) Sumi says.
I hope the governor ignores this ruling like he (apparently) did the last one.
Something that really disturbs me is how divided America has become. Or maybe I should say how far apart the two sides are. Used to be Democrats and Republicans shared a commonality that limited debate to the method of achieving a common goal. You could discuss it over a beer at the bar. Now it is purely us against them. There is no common goal.
Worse, our side is constrained by a sense of honor the other side doesn’t even conceive. We believe in the rule of law, and fidelity to the constitution. They believe in ‘by any means necessary’.
I am totally uninterested in debating with these people anymore. Fire all their asses and hire the ones back that will work for peanuts. Colleges are pumping out degrees by the boatload into a jobless economy, there would be no problem finding teachers. We have tons of young veterans coming home that can fight crime and fires. Screw these assholes that feel entitled to their jobs and bloated pay.
It is neither insanity or stupidity, they know exactly what they are doing. Hang this up past April 5th when they expect to change the Wisconsin Supreme Court balance in their favor. Sumi is just a delaying action.
“Sumi is just a delaying action.”
the new court isn’t seated til august i’ve read
geoffb, they have to delay to July 31. Even if they win the election, that is when the seats change.
So the delaying battle will move to the state supreme court shortly?
And based on past performance, the actions of the scabrous progressive bitches there will exceed anything Judge Sumi has done by at least an order of magnitude.
I see a long Summer vacation coming to a judge if needed.
It’s good to be the
kingjudge.They can squirm and squeal all they want. They can lie and cheat all they want. They can claim that all power is theirs, and even act accordingly, and it will not change the end result. As Insty mentioned this morning: the Gods of the Copybook Headings are laughing their asses off.
Of course, that was the British Empire in 1919. Here and now, it’s totally different.
That’s the resolution I would introduce if I were a member of the Wisconsin legislature.
That’d work.
They left off the “and die” part.
Sloppy bible-clingers.
having seen sumi’s picture this works:
“This is what judicial tranny looks like”
DEATH THREAT!
Union! Union! Union?
It appears to me that McGehee’s #17 is the front-runner for the Protein Wisdom Reader Comment of the Week™.
;^)
Oops.
Woman charged with email threats.
That was posted on a side blog with the most generic heading possible. And again, consider if any roles were altered how this would be reported. However, I am willing to play wait and see.
A comment at Gatewaypundit:
Good idea.
Will the teacher be treated the similarly? Or not?
I’m betting not.
Katherine R.? or A.? Windels. Typo maybe. Can’t be two 26 year olds with that name in Cross Plains WI.
Well, of course she will. She’s been charged, duh. Whether she’ll get a tasty little wrist slap is another question. But if I were a WI Dem, I’d come down on her like a ton of bricks. Anything less is bad PR, and she’s expendable. Really, if she’s dumb enough to do that AND get caught, how useful can she be as anything other than a prop?
Yeah, the only thing that would make #17 better is by adding “with a swordfish.” to the end.